Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-07

TIE damage by the Marshfield (Wis)
\ IRE was much greater than as hrst re-
/ ported. Instead Of 81, 0O0O0 it would be
| between three and four millions. Only one
house remained uninjured by the flames.
III THREE of the fur robbers who some time
ago murdered Detective Halligan and res
| cued McMann, their leader, at Ravenna,
O.. are reported to have been captured a.
| Alpena, Mich.
| SrRAwN's Opera House and other build
| ings at Jacksonville, Ill, were destroyed
| by fire recently. Loss, s125,OoO-
w. j. WILLIAMS, treasurer Of Jerauld
County, Oak, is reported missing. his ac-
counts are short S, 600.
THE rest of the renegade Apaches have
given themselves up Internationally to
General Miles. The trail of the hostiles
| was traced by an educated Indian boy.
THE Lake Shore and Mississippi Valley
department of the American Shipping and
Industrial League met in Chicago on the
29th with twenty five delegates present.
THE conservation of Right Rev. Law
renee Seaman as Bishop of Utah took place
recently in st. Mary's Roman Catholic
Cathedral, San Francisco.
AT meeting of the Norwegian Lutheran
Synod at Stoughton, Wis, recently the
discussion of the doctrine of predestlnatlon
caused split
Mr.. DAVID ARMSTRONG has had his bond
as receiver of the Fidelity National Bank,
of Cincinnati, accepted. and he is now in
charge of the affairs of the defunct institu-
ton.
IsAACJ MILLER and Gustav Tafel, trustees
of the late Archbishop Purcell creditors,
have filed their report in the Cine innati
probate court. 1t shows the total receipts
and disbursements since January 4, 1886, to
be $50, 600; paid creditors, $50, 600; paid for
expenses and incidentals, 1900; leaving
balance on hand of about SO, 500. The liza
bilities were over $3,0OO,OOO.
AFTER an excited discussion the Chicago
Master Masons' Association decided on the
29th by a vote of Al to 30 to arbitrate with
the bricklayers. An arbitration committee
of five was appointed.
THE Standard Paper Company, Of Milwau-
kee, has made an assignment to j. E.
Friend, who gave bond for 100000.
ALEXANDER A. TALMAGE, vice-presldent
and general manager of the Wabash, ST.
Louis q Pacific railway, died in his private
car, one mile east of Peru, Ind, of dysen-
terry on the night of the 2Sth. He was en-
route with his wife for Toledo, where he
expected to take a yachting trip on the
lakes. Mr.. Talmage had been sick for sew
eral weeks and an attack of dySentery i'm
PEELED him to seek health by recreation and
he was on a trip with this end in view when
his death occurred.
THE Mccoy nitro glycerine factory near
Findlay, O., blew up on the 29th Four tramps
were believed to have been blown into
atoms.
Mrs. MoLLoY, charged with being acces-
sorry to the murder of Mrs. Sarah Graham
at Springfield, Mo-, has been granted
change of venue to the Christian County
circuit court - .-.. -.
WILLIAM KIssANE, alias w. K. Rogers,
has filed demurrer in the circuit court at
San Francisco, pleading the statute of linn
itatIons to the suit of the Chemical Ma
tional Bank of New York.
THE high license law fixing the rate in
cities at 81 600 went into effect in Minnesota
on the 1st.
THE RGil,cay Age reports that between
January and June 80 there were laid in
the United States g. 754 miles of new main
line track. From present indications the
Age believes that the total for 1887 may sur
pass that of any previous year in the his
tory of the country.
THE sheriff OF Chicago has taken posses
sion of the property of the Knights of Labor
Publishing Company on a confession of
judgment for IS, 1873. A receiver has been
appointed
THE Utah Constitutional Convention met
at Salt Lake on the 30th for the purpose of
securing the admission of Utah as State
into the Union. .-,